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More Than Microbiome and Medicine
Microbiota Medicine Research, EarlyView.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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The Golden Cradle Quest: Internationalizing a Contemporary Legend
Folklore, 2017 This article analyses the popular Crimean legend ‘The Golden Cradle Quest’. The article examines its transformation from an ancient folk legend to a widespread contemporary legend which mixes two d...
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2015 Historical studies about “legends” in the Modern and Contemporary Period (17th-20th centuries) were limited by stereotypes. Our analysis of a corpus of hagiographic sources about Pedro Claver (1580-1654), a Catalan Jesuit in mission in South America ...
Gérard Neveu
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television [PDF]
, 2018 Television schedules in 1970s Britain were so full of with stories involving folkloric narratives featuring paganism, witchcraft, stone circles and ghosts that such tales account for many hundreds of hours of programming.
Rodgers, Diane
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
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Praktyka grozy i praktyki narracyjne. Creepypasta: niesamowitości (w) sieci
Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2016 PRACTICES OF THE GOTHIC AND NARRATIVE PRACTICE. CREEPYPASTA: THE OTHERWORLDINESS ON THE NET Creepypasta are “true otherworldly stories” spread on the Internet.
Dariusz Brzostek
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Příprava konference Perspectives on Contemporary Legend
Lidé města, 2014 Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze a International Society for Contemporary Legend Research pořádají ve dnech 3. – 8. června 2014 v Praze 32. ročník mezinárodní konference věnované problematice soudobých neformálně i mediálně šířených kolektivně sdílených narativů, především takzvaným současným (městským) pověstem a fámám.
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